Frontiers is a fully open access publisher, and their prepayment scheme
gives UCL a 10% discount on eligible fees. Frontiers will check eligibility automatically at submission, and ask us to authorise payment via our account at acceptance.

UCL is a member of IOP's open access offsetting deal. This offsets 90% of our open access payments (for articles in subscription journals*) against the cost of our subscription fees for the following year.

IOP will ask if you would like Gold open access at acceptance. If your paper is eligible, UCL encourages you to go for Gold because of the size of the available discount.

Contact us to verify that your paper is eligible for inclusion in the scheme

*Note that IOP's fully open access journals are not included in the scheme and standard eligibility criteria apply

MDPI membership gives UCL a 10% discount on eligible open
access costs, and centralised invoicing. MDPI will check eligibility automatically at submission, and then ask us to authorise payment by invoice at acceptance.

PeerJ is an open access publisher with a
different model of payment. Instead of charging authors per paper,
PeerJ offers lifetime publishing plans that allow authors a certain number of articles per year. We have a prepaid account to facilitate eligible payments.

PLoS is a fully open access publisher, and we have a prepaid account with them to facilitate payment of eligible fees. They will check
eligibility automatically at submission, and ask us to authorise payment
via our account at acceptance.

Sage prepaid account is offset against institutional subscriptions and gives UCL around a 90% discount on eligible open access fees. Sage will ask you if you would like Gold open access at acceptance, and you will need UCL's account code to complete the relevant forms.

Contact us to check your eligibility, and for the code to use UCL's prepayment scheme

UCL is part of the UK Springer Compact agreement. This agreement allows corresponding authors from UCL to publish research and review papers, brief communications and continuing education papers, with immediate open access in 1,600 Springer subscription journals without any additional cost.

Once your paper is accepted, Springer will send you a link to their MyPublication form, where you need to select your affiliation. You will also need to agree to the open access terms (including the CC BY licence). Please give your UCL e-mail address rather than a private e-mail address: this enables Springer to identify you as eligible under the agreement.

Springer will contact us to verify that you are eligible for inclusion in the Compact agreement. If you would like any more information about the agreement, or to check your eligibility, please contact the Open Access Team.

The prepayment
scheme offered by Taylor and Francis gives UCL a standard 30% discount on eligible open access fees, rising to 70% for journals included in their subscription offsetting deal. The publisher will ask you about Gold open access at acceptance.

Contact us to check your eligibility, and we'll liaise with the publisher to deduct eligible fees from UCL's prepaid account